Seed Saving as a Community
Terrabean and team will guide and connect you with traditional farmers/food processors who,
- Caters professional seed banking services like collection, grading and packaging and offers range of rare, heirloom and traditionally accepted cereals, vegetables, fruits and herbs seeds grown by seed savers and plant breeders.
- Heirloom seeds are open-pollinated seeds of plant varieties cultivated for its distinct characteristics identified and cultivated for over generations.
Hundreds of heirloom seeds have become extinct in the last few centuries and what is left is a handful. Our motto – Preserve and Prosper. We identify and encourage plant breeders, seed savers/groups working on preservation and cultivation of heirloom seeds to increase access of locally grown indigenous and exotic genetically’ natural seeds among the farming community and the people – to boost local resilience and resistance through seed saving and banking.
Farmers across India revive folk rice varieties.
Cultivation of traditional rice varieties is becoming popular in Chhattisgarh, after a campaign to popularize indigenous paddy strains spreads from Kerala to Himachal Pradesh to West Bengal.
We help to operate seed banks in schools, colleges and any organisations for community outreach and educational purpose. We like the concept of seed banks because it allows people to try growing new crops which are not available in the market.
